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Reliable enough?

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-shooters-motive

Their accounts paint the picture of someone with a vaguely libertarian bent who despised both major parties and politicians generally (including Trump) but who didn’t engage with politics beyond that. He preferred edgy humor, video games and the message board 4chan, all of which he became increasingly steeped in as he withdrew from social life as well as their own friendships several years ago, they said.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    ...the woman told officers she first encountered the group while telling them to stop “harassing” people at a local transit center. That drew the group’s attention, and they began “charging towards her”, the police documents alleged.

    In case anyone in need is unaware: A Self Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinary AMAB Folks.

    It would have been better to wait and form a group of other victims of this harassment, stand side by side with one another, and then confront them. Don't assume people will have your back.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Wikipedia actually! I've been reading Portal:Current Events almost daily for years unless I'm in a self-care mode. The editors seem to choose sources of original reporting about the topics fairly well and the timeline lets me go back and skim everything that happened during a news break.

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  • The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk (chrishedges.substack.com)
     

    The assassination of Charlie Kirk presages a new, deadly stage in the disintegration of a fractious and highly polarized United States. While toxic rhetoric and threats are lobbed across cultural divides like hand grenades, sometimes spilling over into actual violence — including the murder of Minnesota House of Representatives Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband and the two assassination attempts against Donald Trump — Kirk’s killing is a harbinger of full-scale social disintegration.

    His murder has given the movement he represented — grounded in Christian nationalism — a martyr. Martyrs are the lifeblood of violent movements. Any flinching over the use of violence, any talk of compassion or understanding, any effort to mediate or discuss, is a betrayal of the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.

    Martyrs sacralize violence. They are used to turn the moral order upside down. Depravity becomes morality. Atrocities become heroism. Crime becomes justice. Hate becomes virtue. Greed and nepotism become civic virtues. Murder becomes good. War is the final aesthetic. This is what is coming.

    The author of this piece, Chris Hedges, was recently interviewed on Democracy Now!.

    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yay! Glad you like it! It took me several sessions to do everything below the neck at first. That was before starting hrt so it was terrible. I remember slowly eating dark chocolate in between short breaks to counter the pain. Hopefully you're still happy with the epilator and get to unlock the euphoria soon! There's always some pain for me but the bliss kicks in so hard and fast it doesn't even matter.

    I just learned that cacao contains anandamide, one of the endocannabinoids, so maybe eating the chocolate helped train my body to deal with the pain? Who knows!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Fortunately, there is a cheapish laser salon in my area that works well for my face, but some women have told me that they get their laser done by the students at a cosmetologist school that's even cheaper. It might be worth looking into whether that's available in your area.

    An epilator works great for the rest of my body, and my skin feels much better to me after the hair has been pulled all the way out. It only really hurt the first few times. After that the pain turned into pleasure. Seriously, it feels so nice that I have to remind myself to not just bliss out. My sense of general happiness even stays improved for days after as well! Try the epilator. But don't use it on your face!

    Don't dare use this one on your face, but some folks make their own electrolysis setups. It will cause scaring if you don't know what you are doing.

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    Last night at a town hall in Jonesborough, Tennessee, a woman shared her story: she was denied prenatal care by her OB-GYN because the doctor objected to the fact that she isn’t married. She’s been with her partner for 15 years and has a 13-year-old son.

    The doctor told her that because she was unwed, they didn’t feel comfortable treating her because it went against their “Christian values.”

    Now, she’s traveling out of state to Virginia to receive prenatal care.

     

    Since January 2025, police raids on massage parlors have intensified, targeting immigrant women suspected of sex work. Amid nationwide protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), these workers — among ICE’s most systematically targeted — are largely excluded from community defense.

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